Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-01-27
DAkoTAlT

Iraue.
The Madison normal school has 1856
students.
Lots in Oakes sell for four hundred
dollars each.
Watertown employs ten teachers for
five hundred scholars.
at and about Oakes the snow is two
feet deep ON the level
Plankinton is said to have a bad case
of wife-beater on it's hands.
In Clay county there are fifty schools
and 2.l92 persons of school age.
A st. Paul grocery firm has made
Aberdeen their distributing point.
2. a. Gatchell, has sold the Deuel.
County Advocate to A. &. Warner.
st. Lawrence is short on coal, but is
having Il red hot time over religion.
On the 25th inst the Kimball Index
commenced to issue Il daily paper.
Canton prohihitionists still have con-
tidence that the saloons will be closed
after Feb. Sd.
The long iron bridge at Bismarck
contracts and expands eleven inches
by the heat and cold.
Sioux Falls feels certain that the
Wilmar road will be built to that
city early in the spring.
General Pease, of Watertown is going
to Bismarck to labor for the revision
of the insurance laws of the territory.
The chief needs of the farmers of the
territory are reduced to open markets,
plenty of cars and independent buyers.
The Yankton woolen mills are pre-
pairing for a greatly increased produc-
tion OF manufactured goods next sea-
son.
A paper mill and a canning factory
are improvements of which Sioux Falls
feels sure during the coming building
season.
Mr.. Schmidt, of Lincoln county. has
barn A by l02 with IL foot posts, and
eight-foot basement under the entir
structure.
L. D. Winn, CT Green Valley town
ship, Miner county, forged school orders
to the amount of $500 and made him
self scarce.
The secretary OF the interior allows
Frank Aldrich. of Bon Homme county,
Sg35 for loss by depredations of Brule
Sioux Indians in 1873.
The Parkston Advance reports !.
movement to bond Hutchinson county
to the amount Of $4,000 to secure the
Northwestern railroad.
The st. Lawrance journal notes the
loss of numerous horses among farmers
supposed to be directly traceable to
their eating flax straw.
Fred T.. E ans has sold his warehouse
and turned over all of his contracts IN
the Black Hills to the Northwestern
transportation company.
Peter Coleman, and old man living
in Kimball, was put out of u saloon
last Thursday night while intoxicated,
and was so badly frozen that he died a
day or SO later.
The annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic men of
the territory will he held at James
town in March. 1t is definitely ex-
| pected that 5000 will attend.
There is Il prospect of the biggest i'm
migration to the territory in the COM
ing spring ever known before, judging
from the number of inquiries received
at the Office of the commissioner of i'm
migration.
In Rapid City the snow disappeared
so gradually that there was an almost
total absence of slush. The surface is
a little muddy, but as the frost has only
penetrated the ground a few inches
the mud will not be bad.
In the approaching spring election at
4ankton it is reported there is de.
cided disposition to ignore politics, re.
ligion, prohibition and anti-prohibition
anu make business capacity the test OF
office.
The frost has cracked the cement on
the artesian well at Mitchell and the
water has had to be let out. An engi
neer who can construct reservoir
that will stand the cold climate of Da
kota has to understand his business.
The commissioners of Yankton coun
ty are interesting themselves in the
congressional law which is construed
in Lawrence county for prohibit coun
ties owing 4 per cent of their valua
ton from incurring liabilities for cur
rent expenses.
Rev. John Plank, who lives neal
Grand Valley, Aurora county, is ovel
eighty years of age and has preached
the gospel nearly fifty years. He wa
a resident of Chicago when the Indian.
roamed and only eight log cabins be
sides his own comprised the town.
In June, 1885, Alfred Brown an,
Timothy oung, of Egan. Moody coun
ty, brought a tract of land in tha
neighborhood from . Sioux Indian be
fore the five years required by law hat
expired. Afterward S. a. Bidwell ant
. S. j. Taylor secured title and nov
Judge Palmer confirms it. The land i
valued at $4,000
The genial chinook wind visite'
Rapid City and the Hills country OF
the 10Th inst. 1t was boon to cattl
men, for under its warm influences tn
snow disappeared and run off tn
ranges insmall rivulets. Consequently
there will be no mud. and should
freeze follow, the grass will not b
, frozen in II mass of ice This will Civ